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The healthcare industry finds itself at a bit of a crossroads when it comes to weighing policies around BYOD, or bring-your-own-device, trends. The benefits of BYOD are significant. On one [...]

What are some of the lingering challenges that healthcare organizations continue to face with HIPAA and HITECH compliance? Five data security experts share their insights. 'The biggest thing I see [...]

If we've learned anything from the recent spate of extensive hacks, it's that it's time for a dramatic reimagining of how companies approach security. One lesson I took away from [...]

Unlike their cellular counterparts, Wi-Fi networks do not have the luxury of a dedicated control plane that is decoupled from the data plane. Consequently, Wi-Fi struggles to provide many of the capabilities that are taken for granted in cellular networks, including efficient and fair resource allocation, QoS and handoffs. The reason for the lack of a control plane with designated spectrum is that it would impose significant overhead. This is at odds with Wi-Fi's goal of providing a simple, plug-and-play network.In this paper we present Flashback, a novel technique that provides a decoupled low overhead control plane for wireless networks that retains the simplicity of Wi-Fi's distributed asynchronous operation. Flashback allows nodes to reliably send short control messages concurrentlywith data transmissions, while ensuring that data packets are decoded correctly without harming throughput. We utilize Flashback's novel messaging capability to design, implement and experimentally evaluate a reliable control plane for Wi-Fi with rates from 175Kbps to 400Kbps depending on the environment. Moreover, to demonstrate its broad applicability, we design and implement a novel resource allocation mechanism that utilizes Flashback to provide efficient, QoS-aware and fair medium access, while eliminating control overheads including data plane contention, RTS/CTS and random back offs.

Peter Levine, general partner at Andreessen Horowitz and lecturer at Stanford, shares his insights on how startups should assemble their initial team and create their first product.

The co-founder of VMware and Associate Professor of Computer Science at Stanford explains how an academic research project evolved into a commercial idea.

the article offers suggestions regarding how companies can deal with the issue of data protection and intellectual property theft. Topics discussed include using a proper encryption to provide extra security; avoiding exchanging files throuh electronic mail; and restricting access to information and maintain an audit trail to see changes made in files by users.

It's not just about doing our best to prevent such cyber threats, but also about being prepared if and when our files actually do get held for ransom. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the problem with mobile devices in that cloud providers' default security does not extend to files synced to devices leaving files completely exposed. Topics discussed include the things that a company must do solve the problem of security such as accepting cloud fully, for companies to take additional steps to secure it properly by adding an additional layer of encryption and updating security measures after changes to the system.